Bristol Palin revealed that she “couldn’t believe it” when her teenage son Tripp sent a six-word text that he was moving out of her Texas home.
Earlier this month, the daughter of former Governor Sarah Palin said that her 15-year-old son has relocated to Alaska to “be closer to his dad.”
There, Tripp will be living with his dad Levi Johnston, 34, and his stepmother Sunny Johnston, 32, and half-sisters Breeze, 13, Indy, 8, and Delta, 5.
“He just texted me and was like, ‘Hey Mom. I’m not coming back,’” she revealed on the “Sex, Lies and Spray Tans” podcast.
“Oh, I couldn’t even believe it. At first I’m like, ‘I’m coming up to Alaska, we’re not doing this.’ I was so mad. So mad.”
“It still is gut-wrenching to me because it’s been just Tripp and I, and then I had my girls, but it’s always been Tripp and I,” added Bristol, who hails from Wasilla, Alaska. “It’s changed the dynamic of so much.”
Bristol admitted that deep down she knows her soon-to-be 16-year-old son needs his father close to him as he approaches his late teens.
“All I can do is just hope and pray that it is what’s best,” she said, adding that she’s mulling over a potential move to Alaska, where many of her relatives still reside.
“Selfishly, I’m just like, ‘I want him with me forever. He’s my best friend. My kids are my whole world.’ But I can’t be selfish in that,” she added.
Earlier this month, Bristol took to social media to share how her son’s move has affected her.
“This has been the hardest ‘first day of school’ yet with one of the biggest pieces of my heart missing,” said Bristol, 33. “Tripp has decided to finish out high school in Alaska to be closer to his dad and our entire family.”
“If you know Tripp, you know he lives for hunting/fishing and I honestly can’t blame him for wanting to be back home,” she added.
She later shared an image of her two younger daughters as she explained that she was experiencing bittersweet emotions.
“As hard as it has been to come to this decision — it’s truly not about what I want,” she added. “And that relationship with his dad is a lot more important than my own selfish desires of having him with his mama forever!”
Bristol also shares daughters Sailor Grace, 8, and Atlee Bay, 7, with ex-husband Dakota Meyer, 36.
